Once Round The
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Ambassadeurs! We are staying there. But to-night I'm going to! Nice. How about to-morrow" Her] alluring dolly eyes languished."
**To-morrow*** Bunny had got < "Meet me, bere at eleven. We'll go to the Rock and look at the funny fish"
The Aquarium was not going to cost a lot
Topping." said the girl. and frowned at ber camera. "Damn this thing. I've trailed it round all morning, and now I've got to take it with me to lunch"
"Why?" asked Bunny: * keep
it for you til to-morrow
"Angel" said she. "Take care ofj
it Au revoir.”
He watched ber go, pleased at the notice people took of her, and ther! he studied the bill Eighty-eight) franes. Three days' rations.
Leaving, he met Mrs. Massey in
a two-boss shay.
**Good morning, Major, said she. "Always gay, aren't you?'"
"When 1 meet you,” said Bunny. She shock a jewelled finger "Bad. lad ***
"Not really," be protested. "Only: 'human,” and pointed to a poster, **Lucullus Restaurant, Nuit de Gala, spectacle, dancing" cadeauz." "Does that say anything to you, dear lady ***
and
Mrs. Massey liked Bunny knew be was not rich. In their jaunts together she always slipped him a mille ncte and never asked for an account... Dinner at the Lucullus would have put him on his
feet
"I daren't listen.": she lamented. "Sciatica stops my ears!"
"Sciatica," said Bunny promptly. "See my doctor, he's a
*Doctor," masseuse, radiotherapy, baths Mrs. Massey's sciatic nerve? would keep him for a week in com-: missions!
-The concierge got me a charm- inx one last night."
Missed again. The major escap ed, Everyone was hastening to lunch. He tightened his waistcoat for the cocktails set the gastric Juices crooning, “OK, chief, we're ready for the job."
Bunny diced into the warrer of alleys by the Condamine. He knew every place to feed in Monaco. He chose
announcing. "FITS A francs 50. tin compris." Its re-i zular patrons hired their table napkins for a week, writing their in pencil on the corner. They were clerks and sewing girls and meagre parchment-skinned old:
names
Over the flabby leek and surce of sausage which contituted Hors d'œuvres varies." Bunny recalled a dinner at the casing with a Princess for company.
Variety is the spice of life.
A thin pulty-coloured girl op- posite caught his eye.
"Monsieur is not a regular client.
See, he has lost his knife."
The restaurant provided
knife, fork, and spoon, and
his
knife and fork had been taken away
with his plate..
"That ties me to pate and fruit," he laughed. "Without a knife I can't take meat.”
"Monsieur is a philosopher.”
"One is either that or a wolf, or ¦
an 238," said be..
The girl's brown eyes were friendly.
"Monsieur is English?"
She folded her napkin.
and
Bunny saw the name “Pierrefeu”
on it.
"English," he agreed. "Will you take a coffee and cognac with me Mademoiselle Pierrefeu?"
When a pretty girl is pleasant one must be civil. *
"Willingly, monsieur."
She became confidential. She was modiste chez Molynard, not too badly paid, but her mother was ill "With two thousand francs I could. send her to Pan Travel costs so dear.”
He was thinking of his own life of joyous expedients as be replied, "In Monaco it is easier to make” money than to save it, but lessaw her flush She collected her shabby gloves in nience.
Thank you for the coffee, sir, she said dryly. We others, we have to work. I am a serious and affianced towa young woman gentleman, a chiropodist in the Flower Gardens at Cannes, Bon
said Bunny dropped
ntinued in Pars 15.).
MOTHER WAS THINKING OF YOU. DADDY, WHEN SHE RENTED THIS HOUSE-
THE CHINA MAH. FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1935
INDEED,! WAS. I'VE ALWAYS WANTED YOU TO HAVE A
NICE ROOM LIKE THIS TO YOUR SELF. I HOPE
YOU WON'T GET LONESOME-
DADDY! I KNOW YOU WON'T MIND, BUT CAN I HAVE THAT LAMP? IT WILL LOOK
BETTER IN MY ROOM. YOU CAN TAKE THIS ONE.
O-KAY- TAKE IT AN DON'T YOU
BOTHER
ME-
YOUR WIFE SAYS THERE
NO ROOM DOWN- STAIRS FER THESE THINGS SO SHE SAID TO PUTIEM IN
HERE
Rosie's BEAU GEDHANUS
Ragistavad U. 3. Pateic Office."?
PUT
EM DOWN AN GIT
OUT-
Bringing Up. Father
NOW ILL BE ABLE TO WRITE|
MY SPEECH IN ME OWN ROOM-
BY GÓLLY! THIS LAMP MUST HAVE BEEN MADE FER A DOLL HOUSE.
YOU LOOK COMFY I'LL LEAVE YOU TO YOUR WORK- !- MUST FIX UP THE OTHER ROOMS.
HEY! WHERE ARE YOU GOIN WITH
THAT CHAIR?
YOU MADE ME VERY HAPPY. MAGGIE I'VE ALWAYS
ROOM LIKE THIS:
WANTED AY
OH YOU WON'T NEED IT. BESIDES, IT'S NOTA GHAIR FOR A MAN'S ROOM.
WELL-NOWI MUST GIT AT THIS SPEECH-1 MUST HAVE IT. READY BY TO-MORROW.
WHAT'S THE IDEA OF USIN MY PHONE?
YOUR WIFE®
IS USIN' THE OTHER-ONE AN I'VE GOT TO GIVE AN ORDER TO THE BUTCHER.
HERE'S A BROKEN E CHAIR.YOUR WIFE TOLD ME
TO PUT IT IN HERE-WHERE DO YOU WANT ĪT?
WHO SAID ! WANTED
IT?
HERE'S SOME
MORE THINGS TO BE PUT IN
THIS ROOM-
WHAT A NICE ROOM THEY FIXED UP FER ME-
GEE! IT WAS NICE OF IZZY EVERITE TO SEE ROSIE AND HAVE HER MAKE UP WITH
ME. I WISH HE'D HURRY.-
SHE WILL I TOLD HER YOU WERE SICK IN A HOSPITAL
AND SHE STARTED TO CRY.
FIVE GOT
GOOD SCHEME
BUT SHE'LL CALL UP THE HOSPITAL-
WELL-MY BOY! IT'S JUST AS GOOD AS ALL FIXED.
1 SAW ROSIE.
DOES SHE FORGIVE ME?
OH NO, SHE WON'T. I TOLD ER THAT YOU WERENT
ALLOWED TO SPEAK TO
ANYONE
1935, King Features Syndicate, Inc., Greer Beitsin zights
IT'S THE GYPSY IN ME.
HERE'S A PENNY I HOPE YOU ARE DESERVING
OF IT
ARE YOU SURE YOU DON'T WANT
CHANGE?